Plate and stake structure for gondola cars.



No. 825,036. PATENTED JULY 3, 1906. E. I. DODDS.

PLATE AND STAKE STRUCTURE FOR GONDOLA CARS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18. 1905.

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No. 825,036. PATENTED JULY 3, 1906. E. I. nouns. PLATE AND STAKE STRUCTURE FOR GONDOLA CARS.

APPLICATION FILED sBP'T.1s. 1905.

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AN, rLLi N018, Assumes TO THE PULLMAN COMPANY, or enrcaeo. ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION: or ILLINOIS. v

, PLATE AND sraugarnudrdsnms enoee. Application filed Bepte To all whom it may concern. Be it known that I, ETHAN I. Donns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pullman, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plate and Stake Structures for Gondola Cars, of which the following .is a specification. i c In order to rovide a metallic car. with sheet-metal si es or ends and 006 crating stakes possessing great "strength" and a neat appearance, I have invented a car of the gondo a type wherein the sideor-end' lates and sta s are integral, 'the stakes being hollowand pressed out of the planes of the metalsheets; To still further strengthen the structure, if desired, I insert in each hollow stake a bar properly fastened to the side or end of the car. In addition the metal side plates 20 are extended across the ends of the transverse beams of the underframe and are re.- vided with to and-bottom flanges w -ch may be ihtegra with the plates or ma com prise bars'riveted or otherwise secured t ereto.

A n the accompanying drawings I have illustrated several embodiments of my invention, wherein I Figure lie 22. plan view, partly in section,

.of a portion of a gondola car embodyin my 0 invention. Fig. 2 is aside elevationo the structure illustrated in Fig 1. [Fig 3 illustrates a modified form of combined late and stake. Fig.4 is a plan yziew, partly in section, of a portion of a car, showing amodified form of my invention. Fig..5 1s a similar new showin adiflerent modification. Fig. 6 is a vertica transverse section of a car emfploving side plates with integral tapered. ,stakes. w Fig. 7'. is avertical cross-section of a ci'tion of a car, showing amodified construcion of'to andbottom flanges for the'side; g..8 is a vertieal-cross-section of a part-of a car,' illustrating the. use of a bar .withinthehollow stake ,aandfiig. Sis a plan.

view of a car whose illustrating a reinforcingbar within each hol l w side stake. Referring first to Figs. 1 and 2, 10 characterizes the centersill, and 11 the bed -bolster.. 5o 12 is the floor of thegar-body, 13 ein the end thereof, and 14', 14 the sides, eadhofl which latter comprises a number of alternate f speisc tion or pessimism.

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plain metal plates 16 rivate 18 clearly shown in Fig. 1.

tion wherein each plate 16 are attac ed, b

their outer edges fastened to the bearers and are providedtop edges of the-transverse side is shown in sectio'm Pl FOR eoNooLA ones.

sheets ternate metal plates 16, having integral hollow ribs 17 at-theirends, tlie; ribbed ends of overlapping and being fastened by to the ends ofplates 15, as" is most The ribs 17, which comprise the side stakes of the car, are of uni form width,-as shown in Figs. 1 and 2; but in.

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in conjunction with 'al- Fig. 3 have illustrated a modified construcan integral hollow rib '17, plate 16 overlapping plate 15 and being seour-ed thei'eto by rivets 18". l

A In Fig. 4 I have shown another form my late 20 has a inirentiom-inwhich each'side hollow rib21 ofuniform widt the ribbedend of each plate overlapping the adjacent late and being secured 't ereto by. rivets .22.

to that shown in Fi being that each hol prises the stake I 20 being fastenedto each other by rivets 22 the same as illustrated in Fig. 4. I l I have illustrated in Fig. .6 a

employin channel center sills 2' 4, the only difference nstruction ,to which means ofang elatesg27, ying transoms 4, aving inper and lower flanges 25 and 26,' re I and integral end flanges 28.- loor-plates 29,'having'integral anges at cross bearers or tegral u s ective '1:

car, are secured to the upper flanges of the flying tra'nsoms and center sills, a stre th-f enin longitudinal plate31 being rivets to the cor-plates 29 and to theltop flanges of the center sills; Side plates 32 overlap and. are riveted to 0 end flanges of the cross With integralta pared ribs or stakes 33, which mag betapered' inwidtl'i or depth, or both, and,'if esired', may

is provided tapered in width,

,Ihe' construction shown in Fig. .5 is similar ow rib 21,'Which comis tapered in width, the plates 7 sides of the taper toward both ends of the side plate, as

showninFig. '6, being'dee est opposite the ates32 may each be provided with a rib similar to the construction showriin FiglA,

5, secured thereto at or near their lower edges. 1

cams-of the, car.

are provided with a coping ,ang1e-iron34, riveted thereto, and with a tension angle-bar 3 The construction illustrated in F'g. 1 all res ects like that shown in Fig. 6, except that t e top and bottom flanges 3d and 35, extended outwardly and inwardly, respec tively, are integral with the side plates 32'.'

, In Figs. 8 and 9 I have shown a still further modification in which reinforcing-bars are inserted in the hollow stakes. In the present instance I ha e shown such bars 'l"-shaped in cross-section but it will be obvious that bars of other shape may be employed. These ba s 36,. which are of uniform transverse diniensions if their corresponding ribs are so formed and which are tapered if thetiihs tapered, are secured by means of rivets 37 passing through their flanges to the-i nie2 one of the overlapping side plates and 39, the rib on the outer plate forming the st fitting neatly about the T-bar, as i clearly shown in Fig. 9. It will be that such a plate with. integral st f; used on the sides or ends of the ca modifications may be made in. the c. tion without departing from the su istau my invention as set forth in the ap enowi claims.

This patent is intended to einbraci: only so much of the disclosure made herein as is covered by the claims.

I claim 1. In a railway-oar, a side or end plate having one or more tapered integral ribs forming one or more car-stakes, substantially as described. v

2. In a railway-oar, a side or end plate having one or more hollow tapered intergal ribs forming one or more car-stakes, substantially as described. 1

3. In agailway-car, a side or end plate having one or more integral ribs tapered both in i sauces u. in a ran inge hollow tapered rib, ad rib, said rib and bar substantially as de- 6. In railway car the combination of a side or end plate having an integral hollow ta-melted rib, and a tapced bar in said rib,

' rib and forming a car -stake, subthe overlapping plates having an interib, a in said rib plate, substantially as de- 6 the co ibinatio'n of 1 A A the overlappin lj ortion o. 1 1 ving an integra hollow 7 oar in said rib secured "lb and bar forming a KG, substantially as described. v

iilwaywar, the o nibination of side or plates secured. to

oi-t *1 of one of said, plates low rib forming a can iescribed.

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rib and bar core oar-stakes, subie combination of a the oombinaton of 

